Curator and Performa director RoseLee Goldberg is launching her book, Performa 09: Back to Futurism, which is a definitive account of the performance biennial. The book includes creative documentation by the 150 artists who participated – among them Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Omer Fast, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski, Yeondoo Jung, Keren Cytter, [...]
Category Archives: Books
From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys
June 13, 2011 – 6:06 pm
New York-based artist and writer Michael David Quattlebaum, Jr. will be launching his first book of poetry this Friday at the OHWOW Book Club, followed by a series of readings by the artist, as well as Jack Walls and Stefon Bondell. Quattlebaum, who founded the performance collective No Fear and performs regularly under the alias Mykki [...]
Visual Diaries/Girls
May 6, 2011 – 5:26 pm
Visual Diaries/Girls is a group exhibition that opens tonight at Stephanie Bender Gallery in Munich. Curated by Florencia Serrot, it features the work of eleven women photographers, each from a different country (myself included). The show looks to document and investigate a new breed of female photographers whose work is autobiographical in nature and serves [...]
David Maisel
April 12, 2011 – 3:22 pm
From 1987 to 2007, photographer David Maisel focused his artistic energies on what he eventually titled The Mining Project, a series of aerial photographs of open pit mines. In response to the environmental destruction promoted by the mining process and lax environmental regulation, Maisel created a group of images that beautifully and poignantly documents what [...]
Far Too Close
March 16, 2011 – 7:37 am
I have been a quiet admirer of Martina Hoogland Ivanow’s photography since I came across her portraits of Lou Doillon lounging seductively in a turn-of-the-century Parisian fencing club. So when news arrived that Steidl was finally printing Martina’s long-awaited monograph Far Too Close, it seemed it was time to find her in Berlin or Stockholm [...]
Krzysztof Wodiczko
March 11, 2011 – 10:18 pm
Galerie Lelong is hosting a book signing and viewing Saturday for Krzysztof Wodiczko’s multimedia installation, …OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project. Based on interviews with veterans and civilians from Iraq and Afghanistan, it looks at the complex psychological impact that combat has on those who experience it. The book signing for …OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project will [...]
